{"id":1828,"date":"2003-12-11T23:49:46","date_gmt":"2003-12-12T03:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/12\/11\/just-the-thing-for-the-cannibal-on-you"},"modified":"2003-12-11T23:49:46","modified_gmt":"2003-12-12T03:49:46","slug":"just-the-thing-for-the-cannibal-on-your-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/12\/11\/just-the-thing-for-the-cannibal-on-your-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Just the Thing for the Cannibal on Your list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2026'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/donteat.jpg\" width=\"196\" height=\"426\" align=\"left\">Germany&#8217;s<br \/>\n          self-confessed cannibal killer Armin Meiwes has been sent a vegetarian<br \/>\n          cookbook and a Christmas hamper full of veggie burgers and tofu.<\/p>\n<p>      Animals rights group Peta (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)<br \/>\n      is behind the stunt and says it would be a major coup if it could convert<br \/>\n      Meiwes to vegetarianism.<\/p>\n<p>      Meiwes is on trial for killing, dismembering and eating the flesh of another<br \/>\n      man.<\/p>\n<p>      He has admitted killing and eating his victim, but denies it was murder.<br \/>\n      Peta is hoping the mouth-watering recipes in the book and the hamper of<br \/>\n      vegetarian foods will persuade him to mend his ways.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">Peta spokesman Juergen Faulmann said: &quot;What<br \/>\n          this man did to a German computer expert is done to other creatures<br \/>\n          every day.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>        &quot;The cruel scenario of slaughtering, cutting up, portioning, freezing<br \/>\n        and eating of body parts is the grim reality for more than 450 million<br \/>\n        sentient individuals that are killed in this country every year.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>        from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_846062.html?menu=news.quirkies\">Ananova<br \/>\n          <\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany&#8217;s self-confessed cannibal killer Armin Meiwes has been sent a vegetarian cookbook and a Christmas hamper full of veggie burgers and tofu. Animals rights group Peta (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is behind the stunt and says it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/12\/11\/just-the-thing-for-the-cannibal-on-your-list\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}